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Scott Resumes Giving Away Millions In Large Chunks

The NonProfit Times

Depending on the various sale dates, financial sources estimated the value to be anywhere from $8 billion to $11.5 This is Scott’s second grant to LISC, one of the nation’s largest community development organizations. The gifts come a few weeks after a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that showed she sold 61.66

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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

million in renovations to support a community-developed plan to reopen this legacy site as a collectively owned community asset. BAMBD CDC is an arts-based organization invested in community development writ large. These spaces are now closed, and gentrification is encroaching upon the buildings that housed them.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

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Community Ownership of Real Estate: A Los Angeles Story

NonProfit Quarterly

At a recent professional dinner, I struck up a fascinating conversation with a woman who has spent her legal career working in civil rights, housing, and community development. Such phenomena are root causes of many challenges facing urban communities of color today. Image Credit: Mustapha Saadouni on unsplash.com.

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Detroit People’s Food Co-op: How to Advance Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

And they also had a community room for community meetings within the co-op. As a result, Yakini notes, the group decided “we needed a building that could accommodate more than a retail grocery store.” So, I brought these ideas back to our team.” Raising money was another challenge.

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Google Ad Grant for Nonprofits: Ultimate Guide

Nonprofit Megaphone

At the top of the page, you will probably find ads from retailers like Nike, Adidas, and so forth. These retailers purchase this ad space to appear in your search results. For example, let’s say you want to purchase a pair of soccer cleats, so you conduct a search on Google.

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Google Ad Grant for Nonprofits: Ultimate Guide

Nonprofit Megaphone

At the top of the page, you will probably find ads from retailers like Nike, Adidas, and so forth. These retailers purchase this ad space to appear in your search results. For example, let’s say you want to purchase a pair of soccer cleats, so you conduct a search on Google.